shahid khan

Mon the Croatia

Cal the fucking dragon would have saved that free kick!

Yes, mate. Having completely changed my plans when the draw was made me and the boy are going over for the last group game only. Birmingham to Stuttgart via Frankfurt. 21st-24th. Train from Frankfurt airport to Stuttgart Central included in the flight ticket from Lufthansa. Staying in a place called Renningen for the 3 nights, 20 mins direct train to Stuttgart. Just over £500, hand luggage only. Will obviously drive to Birmingham from Greenock.

Mill Farm stadium for AFC Fylde v Dorking Wanderers. Went to see Dorking Wanderers for the first time due to the Bunch of Amateurs YouTube documentary and went in the away end. 70-80 of them and sang non stop for the full 90. Game was live on TNT (BT) Sports with a 12 o'clock kick off. Early start for the Dorking fans, coach left at 5am! 3-3 it finished and the game could have been 8 each but for awful finishing and good goalkeeping. Standard was poor, easily below Scottish championship but excellent entertainment. Brilliant game with 2 evenly matched teams. Cracking set up down at Fylde. They are sandwiched between Preston and Blackpool so fair play to their 800 or so core home support. Talking to the head Steward outside and we mentioned where we came from so we got a behind the scenes tour. Home and away changing rooms, good wee chat with some of the Fylde players. Had our Morton hats on and a wee bit of banter with Harry Davis and Luke Conlan, both ex St Mirren. Conlan still bitter about being punted back to Burnley whilst on loan, brilliant! Whole day from start to finish was tremendous, enjoyable league and another entertaining match.

He-haw. The fanzones are where all the cool kids will be anyway.......

Booked up last night. Wife and kids coming so going for third set of matches and into the last 16 games as well (confident) due to annual leave and school for the kids. Staying in a Butlins type place near Venlo in Holland. An hour from Dusselsorf by train so will be hoping for tickets in that region. Means me and the boy can travel into Germany for matches/fanzones and wife and our youngest can stay in the quieter camp. Going Hull to Rotterdam and driving 2 hours (ish) to Venlo. Buzzing for it.

Episode five gives some exposure to Dorking Wanderers. Give Bunch of Amateurs a search on YouTube for a proper, fly on the wall, documentary with "Dorking Uncovered" absolute class. The Owner, chairman, and manager, Marc White, is proper marmite. I personally think he is brilliant. Been following it for a few years now. They also have proper pub leagues they follow with Charlwood and New Holland Sports. Cracking watch if you want the Wrexham stuff without the Hollywood and American nonsense.

Was in Riga for the weekend but unfortunately their football season is finished. Took my boy a short walk from our hotel on Saturday morning and stumbled across the Riga FC youth tournament. Held over 3 days, it involved 12 teams at under 14 level from mainly Latvia but had teams from Lithuania and Estonia aswell. 40 minute games and played in a round robin format. We managed to catch 3 games FK Auda 0 - 4 SK Babite JFK Daugava 0 - 11 Sparta Tallinn Marupes FC 0 - 6 FK RFS The Estonian team absolutely destroyed their opponents. 11-0 going on 20+. All teams play from the back with, similar to our youth games from a younger age, the first pass from the 'keeper appeared to be free. Decent football on show from the boys. Cracking indoor facility joined onto the stadium. Similar to our Oriam or Toryglen. Minus 8 at the time we were there so great to have indoor facilities for youth teams.

John and Dara save this series imo. Munya is an unfunny, smug wee p***k and Fern is one of the worst contestants ever. Don't know if it's an act (doubt it) but constantly acting like a teenager is getting boring now. Sarah not been too bad actually which is surprising coz she usually grates me whenever she is in TV.

Picked my boy (6) up from school on Thursday last week. He was learning about "what's in you pants". By the time he went to bed that night, I was called a big penis 8 times and his mum a wee vagina 6 times. He is allowed to show his family his penis but not "the strange men" in the street or playground. Anymore questions? Ask your mother......

Met Ian Wright at Heathrow Airport. Spent 5 mins or so talking to my boy about all things football. Got a pic as well. Absolute gentleman. Aparantly knows who Morton are although had to ask where in the league we were haha. Was on the same flight as Wille Collum and Bobby Davro. Spoke to Brian Graham a few weeks ago when my boy was playing against his boy. He asked if I was one of the ones that shout abuse at him when he plays against Morton. Probably was my answer. Sound guy. Austin McCann is one of my boys football coaches at St Mirren, always pleasant enough to talk to. My mum works alongside Jim Goodwin's Mrs. Never got to meet him myself but he signed my St Mirren League cup final shirt for me which had added £3 to the value.

Summer recruitment will be key for Fulham but I'm hoping this time as they're are up as champions, they have an extra 3-4 weeks to prepare this time that it'll make a difference. The first season they went back up, Via the playoffs, The director of football, Tony Khan (Owner's son) was playing real life football manager and signed guys like Seri, Anguissa, Le Marchand, Markovic and Mawson for well over 100million. They bagged Slavisa Jokanovic way too early aswell. His replacement (Ranieri) was a complete disaster. Think they tried to get Wenger but he told them to bolt! The season they returned, again via the playoffs, was slightly different. This time, The money wasn't spent as much as the previous attempt but was spent much more wisely on Tosin, Reed and Robinson for example. The problem that season was the amount of loan players brought in, again using the DOF's databases. Players like Lookman, Loftus-Cheek, Anderson and Areola. Decent players but are loan players up for a relegation battle? The biggest problem for Fulham that season was the manager. Scott Parker was out of his depth with a sense of arrogance around him. He played the likes of Abou Kamara, Ivan Cavielero and Josh Maja instead of Mitrovic who it was rumoured he didn't get on with. Speaking to Fulham fans I know, "Parkerball" was dire as well, possession football but with no end product! He isn't well thought of at Craven Cottage. Next season with Marco Silva I'm hoping is totally different. His time at Everton not providing much confidence but it is Everton I suppose.

Just the 38 goals, so far, for Aleksander Mitrovic as Fulham steamroll their way to the Premier league. 2 more wins guarantees promotion.

Managed to secure not only 2 tickets, but 2 tickets together. Unbelievable scenes.

Meat tasty enough, not too dry, Chilli sauce, too mild and sweet for my liking. Solid 6/10 though.